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It only makes sense if the backup cities are already owned by the government. If populating those cities post-disaster requires government appropriation of an
by nate_meurer 11y ago
It only makes sense if the backup cities are already owned by the government. If populating those cities post-disaster requires government appropriation of an entire city's worth of private real estate assets, the resulting financial and political instability could well dwarf anything wrought by the original disaster.
- deoptimo 11y agoSo you think that the appropriation of unused real estate is worse than whatever disaster led to the mass exodus of a population from a major city. Interesting, but that is not how I think.
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- nate_meurer 11y agoYou have badly misread my comment.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoI'm not sure I understand this comment enough to agree or disagree with it. The land etc which is Ordos today was appropriated by the state and they built a city on it. It neither destabilized nor affected the operation of the current government of China in the slightest as far as I can tell. This is the same system that decided to flood several cities so that they could build a giant dam. And while their were complaints, it really didn't do the residents much good then either. So I can't imagine a scenario in China where anything the Government chose to do, especially with the reallocation by fiat, of parts of the country to a different purpose, would result in any political instability whatsoever.